Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectual roughneck, of the H. L. Mencken type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster, high-ceilinged library in his big airy house on Bay St. Louis, far across the bayous on the Mississippi coast. Just as Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness...
...Barton's dancing again proves that he has no rival for laughter below the knees. Greta Nissen, lured back from the movies, does a neat pantomime. The chorus is traditionally comely. In fact nearly everything about the show is excellent, except its massive length and breadth. Perhaps banting would help...
...from which no doubt they will be able to draw a wealth of new and original jokes, and will thus relieve the present monotony of reading jokes which range anywhere from the pre-historic to "The Best Joke I Ever Heard" in the last Boston American. The idealism and breadth of vision displayed in the portrayal of the Semitic Museum deserves special mention. The artists are to be commended especially on their treatment of the religious subjects, since it shows a delicacy of treatment and sympathy of outlook which is unparalleled even in the Dearborn Independent...
...entrance. Most schools of architecture admit men from high school, giving them a training in architecture with a dash of cultural background, and prepare them for the profession in four to five years. The Faculty of Architecture at Harvard is determined that, if a college education, with the breadth that it brings, is a good thing for a lawyer, for a doctor, or for a business man, it is an even better-thing for an architect. Probably no profession requires greater breadth or greater urbanity than does architecture, and this must be acquired without in any way checking the artistic...
...work of genius scarcely reveals the workings of its hand in these pages, so that the woman who is mistress of the secrets of the great, as she so ably reveals in her analysis of fiction writing lacks, here at least, the wings to fly to heights whose breadth of vision she already possesses...